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• Table of Contents. Updated 29 August 2008.
• Chapter 1, "From Classical Mechanics to Statistical Mechanics," pages 1-29. Updated 5 September 2008.
• Chapter 2, "Thermodynamic Concepts and Processes," pages 30-99. Updated 12 August 2008.
• Chapter 3, "Concepts of Probability," pages 100-164. Updated 27 August 2008.
• Chapter 4, "The Methodology of Statistical Mechanics," pages 165-220. Updated 27 August 2008.
• Chapter 5, "Magnetic Systems," pages 221-273. Updated 28 August 2008.
• Chapter 6, "Noninteracting Particle Systems," pages 274-333. Updated 14 August 2008.
• Chapter 7, "The Chemical Potential and Phase Equilibria," pages 334-361. Updated 26 August 2008. This chapter is still very much in draft form and will be extensively rewritten during the next month.

The following chapters are more advanced.

• Chapter 8, "Theories of Gases and Liquids," pages 362-408. Updated 21 July 2008.
• Chapter 9, "Critical Phenomena and the Renormalization Group," pages 409-443. Updated 20 August 2008. New version in the works; typos have not been corrected.
• New chapters are planned on non-thermal statistical processes and time-dependent phenomena.
• Appendix, pages 444-452. Updated 17 April 2008.
• Problem Listing. Updated 1 September 2008
• Index. Updated 29 August 2008. The index is still incomplete and will be updated frequently during the next several months.
• Introduction to Many-Body Perturbation Theory, 10 pages. Updated 2 January 2006. It is unlikely that this chapter will be included in the published text.

Acknowledgements

• Louis Colonna-Romano has generated the better figures and will redraw most of the figures before the book is published.
• William Klein (Boston University) for adopting our notes as his primary text and pointing out ambiguous and misleading statements.
• Anne Cox and her student Chris Bauer (Eckerd College) for many comments and corrections for Chapters 2 and 3.
• Dr. Jan Ryckebusch (Ghent University) for correcting typos and errors in Chapters 5 and 9.
• Oscar R. Enriquez for pointing out several typos in Chapter 1.
• Rob Kooijman, for pointing the flaws in a prior introduction to the concept of probability in Chapter 3. He is not responsible for the present version and any remaining flaws.
• Chris Sataline, for pointing out many typos and unclear passages in Chapters 3 and 4.
• Dr. Nedialko M. Nedeltchev, for pointing out several typos in Chapter 7.
• Andy Coniglio, Matus Medo, Pouria Pedram, and Oruganti Shanker, for pointing mistakes in Chpter 9.
• Pedro Cruz for pointing out several misstatements in Chapter 4.
• Milton Cole and Beate Schmittman for helpful suggestions.